Unit 3  Parks and places in China  
Period 1
Contents:
A:  Words: west, lake, river, ocean, island, know, place
B:  Structures: I don’t know this place.
                It’s in Shanghai.
                That’s the Li River.
                That’s San Ya.
C:  Functions: Referring to the English names of important places in China.
Learning tagets:
A:  Basic aims: 1. Speaking: Use modeled phrases an sentences to communicate with teachers and other learners. Maintain an interaction by providing information in response to factual or ‘Yes/No’ questions.
2. Writing: Develop written texts by putting words in a logical order to make meaningful phrases and sentences.
B:   Further aims: Add some other information as many as possible.
Language focus:
1. Using the simple present tense to express simple truths.
2. Using prepositions to indicate place.
3. Using demonstratives to refer to places.
4. Using proper nouns to refer places.
Materials and aids: Student’s Book 5A page 50   Cassette 5A and a cassette player
                 Workbook 5A page 30    Wallpictures 5A
                 Pictures, photographs or postcards of different places in China
                 Drawing paper, glue
Unit position: Students have learned the simple present tense to express simple truths. In this period, they will continue to practice these sentences. They can use prepositions to indicate place. They can use demonstratives and proper nouns
to refer places.
Step
Contents
Methods

Pre-task preparation










While-task procedure


































































Post-task activity
 








Consolidation
Song
Free talk










Words
Sentences:





1. Sing a song
2. Display the Wallpicture
 for page 50. Ask the class
 to give the teacher a show
 of hands for the places
 they have visited. Point to
 a picture on the
 Wallpicture and ask:
  T: Do you know this place?
  S: I know this place. /I
 don’t know this place.

1. Ask the students to look
 at the pictures in Point
 and say. Students then
 put a tick or a cross to
 show whether they know
 or do not know a place.
2. Introduce: Tiananmen
 Square, Yu Garden, West
 Lake, San Ya, Li River and
 Ocean Park.
3. Point to the map on the
 Wallpicture.
 T: Where is Tiananmen
 Square? Is it in
 Shanghai? I s it in
 Beijing?
  S: It’s in Beijing.
4. Play the second dialogue
  in Point and say.
Students listen and
follow in their books.
5. Ask the students to make
 postcards by sticking the
 pictures or photographs
 onto a small piece of
 drawing paper. Ask the
 students to write the
 name of the place on the
 back of their postcard.
 Introduce more places in
 china to the more able
 students.
6. divide the students into
 pairs. Ask them to do the
 role-play of a tourist and
 a shop assistant. The
 tourist is choosing some
 postcards in a shop. Ask
 the students to talk about
 the places using the two
 dialogues in Point and say.
7. Remind the students to
 use the right
 prepositions.
8. Divide the class into
 groups. Ask the students
 to put their postcards or
 photographs on the
 group’s desk. Tell them to
 put pictures or postcards
 of the same place
 together first.
9. Ask the students to stick
 their pictures on the
 drawing paper and make a
 brochure for the tourist.
 Allow the students to
 arrange their pictures
 and postcards in a way
 they like.
10. Encourage them to write
 a few sentences to
 describe the places.
11. Encourage the students
 to exchange their work.
 Put their brochures into
 the class library.

Workbook page 30
Students read the
 captions on the map.
Students complete
 the dialogues orally in
 pairs.
Invite pairs of students
   to read the dialogues.
Students fill in the
 missing words.

Grammar Practice Book 5A
page 43.